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Marvel’s free-to-play fighting game Contest of Champions is a hit in more ways than one. The title has reportedly garnered over $100 million in in-app purchases since its launch.

Now, it remains to be seen how much of that $100M has gone in to stoking the freemium fires through user acquisition, advertising campaigns, and similar. Knowing how most of these games work, I’m guessing quite a bit.

Ready to go a little crazy with a tower defence game? Then it might be a good time to check out Crazy Kings, which recently updated with new content.

What’s New in Version 1.7.1
EXPLOSIVE NEW LEVELS – Explore all-new locations such as the Lava Lakes and Boreal Isles. Can you handle the fearsome Fungal Forests of Brym?
CRAZY NEW CREEPS – Step up your skills with over 20 brand-new enemy types, including massive Yeti, slimy Snakes and the evil host of the Broodmother!
HERO HOUR – 5 brave heroes are ready to join your fight, including a healer, a sharpshooter, A snake hunter, and even an epic high-tech bomb-bot. Which is your favourite?
BIGGER BATTLEDECKS – We’ve added 4 awesome new cards, including the raging power of the Totem of Might and the devastating Salamander’s Ring.
GOT SWAG? – You asked, we delivered! Epic cards are now winnable in tournament play. Are you ready for a LOOTSPLOSION!!??
TAKE IT EASY – Thanks a bunch for your feedback! We’ve made a load of tweaks, including an easier bird world and an even spoooooookier Well of Souls. Keep those reviews coming.
STAT ATTACK – We added a bunch of new stats to the card viewer for all you passionate number crunchers out there.
NOW IN CHINESE AND KOREAN – Awesome new Chinese and Korean translations. Just select your language in the menus.

Mucho Party is a local multiplayer party game that now includes 40 mini games. Bud don’t fret if it’s a party of one — Mucho Party includes three different AI levels for single play. The mini games includes in each round can be chosen in 6 different ways ensuring lots of variety or allowing the players to pick their favorite mini games.

This latest update also takes the game to free to download allowing players to try before they buy. Five of the 40 games are included for free with the other 35 easily unlocked via one single in-app purchase.

Did you know Gameloft is still supporting Gangstar Vegas in a major way? Well, you do now. The latest update, called “Devil’s Due,” brings the action straight down to hell and has you try to get your soul back from the devil herself. Watch the trailer above to see if it’s worth a download.

The Birds are back in town, and man are they furious. Angry Birds 2 ripped onto the scene today, and it was downloaded over a million times within twelve hours.

First of all, this game is free, unlike the original Angry Birds proper and its many spinoffs in the main series. As any mobile developer will tell you even getting a large number of people to download your game for FREE can be a daunting task, but the point here is that there’s no barrier of entry to Angry Birds 2, so of course people will be downloading it like crazy.

As they are wont to do, Gamezebo has posted about the most interesting looking iOS games that are launching tonight. In other words, the ones you’re gonna wanna know about. And it kicks off with the big bad Angry Birds 2. Here’s the list, but click ahead to the article for full descriptions.

We’ve been waiting on the amazing looking Armello for three years. I first went hands on with it in 2013. But looks like the tablet version is still a ways off. Developer League of Geeks has announced that it won’t be out on tablets until March 2016 — nearly a year away still.

As of September 28, Sega will no longer support Rhythm Thief & the Paris Caper. So they’ve made it free and disabled in-app purchase. It used to be $9.99, so it’s quite a deal. Plus, you don’t need to use the IAP to enjoy or complete the game. So grab it and play it. It’s free.

The Pip-Boy, a plastic accessory that turns your smartphone into a second screen for Fallout 4, has been very hard to come by. According to Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, Pete Hines, the company simply can’t make any more of the accessory.

“We made a s**tload of Pip-Boys, and we went back and made more, and went back and made more. I keep seeing stuff about, ‘Oh, you only did a few thousand.” No–we did a ton of these things. I think we did more of these things than we did for any collector’s edition we’ve ever done, ever.”

A huge update is coming to Bitcoin Billionaire on August 6 that will triple the amount of content in the game. From Touch Arcade:

So, do you remember all that money you invested in time travel in Bitcoin Billionaire? Well it looks like that paid off in a big way, as you’re now the proud owner of a time machine that will whisk you away into the prehistoric era. This new scenario, called Bitstone to the Past, features 25 new investments, 4 new rooms with more than 20 new room items, and new achievements. There’s also a new rare item and re-investment system that applies to both this new scenario and the original one, meaning there are TONS of additional mining opportunities.

The only references to golden ducks in previous Angry Birds games is a level named after them, and the new Golden Duck spell in Angry Birds Under Pigstruction, which showers the level in, you guessed it, golden ducks.

The HD conversion of this classic may not hold up all that well. Sounds like this is a release only if taking a trip down memory lane is the goal.

As a historical piece, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition has some benefits but it’s a harsh reminder that sometimes you’re better off sticking with the memories than going back to them.

We know that piracy is bad in the App Store. But every time a developer releases stats it feels like another shocking statistic. Impulse GP dev EcoTorque has release stats from their first week for sale. The stats show a 97% piracy rate for the first week with July 22nd, their worst at 99.5% piracy.

If you’ve run out of things to do in your Vault, don’t worry: An update for Fallout Shelter is coming on August 13. The game will hit Android on the same day.

We really liked what Fallout Shelter had to offer, but quickly discovered (like everybody else) that there was only so much to do. Hopefully today’s announcement marks only the first of many more updates to come.

Kingdom Clicker, the latest in the auto RPG / clicker-typer genre was released last week. This one comes with a twist — PvP battles.

In Kingdom Clicker the usual clicking is done to gather coins, which are used to buy buildings and power-ups that auto-generate coins. It’s a well worn mechanic and implemented very well here. The graphics are good, the game plays well. But the interesting new thing here is that once a certain size kingdom is built, players can battle other players to attempt to steal part of their bank.

I’ve been playing this for a few days and find myself drawn back to it a few times per day. My only concern with this game is that same for many, I wish the battle were more intuitive — they are basically just a dice roll. That said, it’s a fun game, well done, and worth a try.

FarmersOnly.com has nothing on this game. With this update you can farm with a friend on local multiplayer. If farming simulators are your thing, and I can see a certain draw, give this a shot when it comes out on August 6th.

Aspyr Media wants to bring Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II to mobile. To gauge the interest of the gaming public, they’ve put up a page where you can enter your email address and your mobile platform of choice. From Touch Arcade:

After the surprising news that KOTOR 2got an update a decade since the last one, Aspyr Media continues to surprise by asking mobile gamers to show their interest in a possible iOS or Android port. If you don’t know KOTOR and KOTOR 2, these two games, especially the first one, are considered by many the top Star Wars games ever. There’s, of course, a debate over which one is the best, with most gamers preferring Bioware’s KOTOR because it simply was more fun than KOTOR 2since it was a more traditional story of good versus evil with clear heroes and villains. Obsidian’s KOTOR 2, on the other hand, had a more complex view of humanity and its graces and flaws. Unfortuntely, it felt like a rush job when it came out in 2005, with plenty of technical issues, content missing, and a very abrupt ending.

Partaking in spoilers is like eating a lot of cake: It’s a lot of fun in the moment, but you regret it later on. Still, though — cake. This is a roundabout way of saying that if you’re excited about Hearthstone’s upcoming Grand Tournament expansion, you can vote on the next spoiler reveal. Touch Arcade has more information.

I know many of you are curious to find out about the upcoming cards, and Blizzard is now giving you the opportunity to vote for the next cards to be revealed. If you go to TheGrandTourney.com, you’ll have the option of voting which card should be spoiled next.

The theme of the set follows all the different factions of Warcraft lore who were invited to a tournament which, of course, is a silly tournament and not anything near as serious as the Argent Tournament.

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